About 18 months ago The Burn were chosen (alongside with the Music)
by Noel Gallagher as the support bands for their 10 Year Anniversary tour.
More recently they've also kept Paul Weller company on his acoustic jaunt
around the UK where the Face described them as "the most likely band to
be making an uproar in 2003".

The album "Sally O Mattress" was released at the end of March and this
is bands last date of their twelve date headline tour. The band has a no
nonsense approach with plenty of scally attitude and macho posturing as
soon as they hit the stage. After an instrumental jam they fuse all the
best elements of Cast, The Coral and The La's on the electric folk song
"Calling All" . "Big Blue Sky", their next single is an emotive power ballad
which recalls both Oasis and the Smiths is a far cry from the raw blues
of "Drunken Fool" and leaving the stage they encore with a Bob Dylan song
which explains half of the Burns story.

With that working class determined self belief the Burn deliver the
goods live, but like many Northern bands once you look past the attitude
their isn't much of a personality and as a result they can often comes
across as humourless and lacking in charisma. While unoriginal the Burn
has a devoted fan base and if they can write that all important hook they
could go all the way.